Sentences with phrase «by environmental think»

Speaking at the Greener Britain Hustings, hosted by environmental think tank the Green Alliance, Davey called the potential for a Conservative government after the election a «nightmare scenario» that would distract from «the most important climate negotiations ever».

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«I think far less than 1 percent of the 7.4 billion people on earth are driven by the environmental benefit of plant - based food.

Hard thinking about whether packaging is needed at all, and whether there are better ways to do it, can lead to cost savings, environmental improvements, and possibly even new revenue streams (such as the «mushroom packaging» invented by the company Ecovative).

The bag - fee movement — driven by environmental crusaders and corporate group - think — un-tipped because it conflicted with the primacy of consumer preferences.

According to the New Yorker, The Mercatus Center was first founded and funded by the billionaire conservative Koch Brothers, and the small think tank advocates environmental deregulation.

The Happy Planet Index is put together by the New Economics Foundation (NEF), the U.K.'s leading think tank promoting social, economic, and environmental justice.

I think that there's just too much environmental sensitivity there and I think there's a genuine concern by the indigenous communities,» she said.

This was driven in part by the rise of public interest litigation — think, for example, of an environmental group finding a third - party plaintiff to sue a company to stop an environmentally sensitive development project.

Although she is not specifically addressing environmental thought, this is an argument pressed by Caroline Walker Bynum in her recent and remarkable study, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity.

Nonetheless, the lines of inquiry connected with the term — combined with fresh study of biblical, patristic, and Orthodox thought — hold high promise, I believe, for a constructive response to the concerns raised by today's environmental philosophers.

Reducing the power of governments to deal with environmental issues by giving the WTO the power to overrule environmental legislation thought to restrain free trade hardly seems to be an expression of rationality.

How a philosopher thinks is partly explained by biological inheritance and environmental influence from conception on.

In contemporary environmental thinking, by contrast, «no undifferentiated Being mysteriously «manifests» itself.»

Although many of those concerned for environmental protection are thinking about the natural world simply as it relates to human beings, the leaders of the environmental movement have been moved to perception and action by deeper changes.

It may do itself in, sooner than most of us think, by massive environmental pollution, and / or a nuclear holocaust.

«These sorts of environmental benefits could also be genuinely beneficial to forward - thinking Australian meat companies looking to reduce their environmental impact, and generate energy from their wastes and by - products, both liquid and solid.

People see a chart or guidelines and think automatically that their child is behind, when other external hereditary or environmental factors are taken into account, would by all intents and purposes make that child perfectly fine.

Daren Bakst, a research fellow in agricultural policy at the Heritage Foundation think tank, said sue and settle has led to «egregious antics» that have «effectively handed over the setting of agency priorities to environmental pressure groups,» and has led to rushed rulemaking by the agency.

Liberty's Roger Whelan says he thought the safety and environmental concerns raised by the governor had already been addressed and dismissed in the final environmental impact statement.

If implemented, the governor's commitments will put New York on the map as a national leader — reducing dangerous climate pollution while advancing opportunities to harness the environmental and economic benefits provided by a forward - thinking renewable energy economy.

In the afternoon I joined a workshop on environmental and climate change policy, which was being run by the Green Alliance think tank for a group of my fellow Conservative candidates.

Although DNA methylation was originally thought to be a very stable modification, which once established in early life was then maintained throughout the life span of an individual, there is now growing evidence that the level of DNA methylation can be affected by a range of environmental factors such as parental health, diet and lifestyle.

«This causes a shakeup in the fish family tree, which indicates that the ancestor shared by all ray - finned fishes lived tens of millions of years after previously thought, maybe in the aftermath of a mass extinction event around 360 million years ago that decimated many other groups,» said Friedman, an associate curator at the U-M Museum of Paleontology and an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

«We therefore thought that men might be more open to environmental products if we made them feel secure in their masculinity, so they are less threatened by adopting a green product.»

«We think the meat is more tasty that way,» explains Cun «Angela» Yan Fang, who went from guiding Western tourists as a local Naxi to guiding her fellow locals through the biogas technology and environmental conservation promoted by Western environmental groups such as the Nature Conservancy and Rare.

A person's life span is thought to be largely determined by the combined effects of genetics and environmental factors.

OU researchers compared these new measures of migration with environmental cues that are thought to be used by birds to adjust migration timing.

According to Lester Brown, author of the 2003 book, Plan B (and three subsequent updates) and founder of the non-profit environmental think tank, Earth Policy Institute, the plan is based on replacing the fossil - fuel - based, automobile - centered, throwaway economy with a new economic model powered by abundant sources of renewable energy.

Yet I have done some calculations that I think can answer those questions now: If the world keeps burning fossil fuels at the current rate, it will cross a threshold into environmental ruin by 2036.

While the cause of bloat is unclear, there is a strong predisposition in some dogs and it is generally thought that GDV is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors.

Led by environmental health physician David O. Carpenter of the University at Albany (SUNY), scientists examined more than 700 farmed and wild salmon from North America, South America, and Europe, looking for 14 organochlorines thought to cause cancer and birth defects.

Such decision - making is thought to be characterized by (1) distinct choice of one option based on gradually changing and / or confusing environmental information and (2) the choice is quick when the information is clear but slow when unclear.

Environmental factors are thought to play a role in the development of rheumatoid arthritis by triggering autoimmune reactions in susceptible individuals.

That what the public thinks about energy — what they want, think they want, or think they know — shapes the decisions politicians make about energy and environmental policy: Personal attitudes, concerns, and priorities are determined by more than just «the facts.»

«This is partly about reducing carbon emissions, but it's also an air quality issue that has become very, very urgent,» said Kate Gordon, vice chairwoman for climate and sustainable urbanization at the Paulson Institute, the China - focused environmental policy think tank led by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

«We have concluded that the political drive to recycle anything and everything has become a matter of dogma unsupported by rational economic or environmental thinking,» they say.

The promises were analysed by the World Resources Institute (WRI), an environmental think tank in Washington DC (see map).

«If you haven't had proximity to these glaciers, if you haven't thought about where water comes from, it would be easy to understate or underestimate the implications of glacial ice loss in a state that has predominantly a semi-desert climate and certainly by contemporary climate models is going to be pretty significantly impacted by climate change,» said Jacki Klancher, a professor of environmental science at Central Wyoming College.

But such a charismatic carbon project is all too rare these days, both because the carbon market is dominated by less robust emission reductions from heavy industry in China and India as well as development efforts that proceed with little thought of the environmental cost or co-benefits.

Local officials claim this is proof that the government's environmental preservation efforts have been successful, but recent research by climate scientists suggests a more worrying explanation for rising water levels: not only is climate change thought to be responsible for increased rainfall and snowfall in the area, it has also caused, by some estimates, up to a fifth of the permafrost which covers 80 % of the plateau to melt.

About 1.3 million Americans are affected by rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease thought to be caused by genetic and environmental factors.

It's thought that both forms of IBD are caused, in part, by a combination of genetic and environmental factors.

Because of how antioxidants work — by adhering to damaging atoms called free radicals — they are thought to help combat cancer, intercept the damage of environmental pollution, and prevent age - related degenerative disease.

I believe that nutrition has some influence on the disease course, but as MS is a multifactoral illness (genetic AND SEVERAL environmental factors), it is too naive to think one could completley stop it only by dietary changes, as real life experience demonstrates.

Now, a groundbreaking study conducted at Stony Brook University in New York shows that 90 percent of all cancers — many more than had been previously thought — may be caused by environmental and lifestyle factors, such as smoking, drinking and diet.

Safe Sleep, Sustainable Slumber - Environmental claims by the mattress industry Ccould be tricking you into thinking you are buying an organic mattress for your child.

Elevated Lp (a) is thought to be a genetic factor and levels are not influenced by diet, exercise, weight loss, stress or other environmental factors.

In addition to environmental toxins, most all of us experience emotional toxins caused by persistent stress and negative thought patterns.

perhaps it's not as revolutionary as other types of political action, but i'd like to think that supporting designers who produce their clothing thoughtfully and locally is a statement against the human rights and environmental abuses that are perpetuated by fast - fashion brands.

Such thinking — recently popularised by Timothy Morton's book «Being Ecological» — has emerged partly from the environmental crises of the moment: climate change, mass extinction and widespread plastic pollution.